Juan Carlos Vasquez is a Colombian composer and sound artist. Vasquez has participated as a sonic artist, composer and/or performer in events within the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, The Netherlands, Ireland, Germany, France, Finland, Austria, Greece, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile, including an acclaimed interactive installation for the Milan Furniture Fair in (Italy) reviewed as “one of the most eye-catching sights of the fair” by The Architects’ Journal, while working as a sound director for a research project at the Pilot University of Colombia. In 2013 composed the music for the interdisciplinary work Emperors for Tea by Olympic artist Clare Newton and the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in England in partnership with the Royal College of Music selected him as one of the winners for the “Rhapsody Composition Project”, to write under commission the sonic counterpart for the monumental sculpture “The Acrobat”, by Allen Jones (sculptor) RA. The Grammy-winning American composer Eric Whitacre was linked to this project as ambassador. Vasquez was also finalist of the prestigious BMI Student Composer Award, and nowadays works at the Media Lab Helsinki, Aalto University.